What’s the best assignment you ever had in your career? Why?

Honestly, I’m enjoying my current assignment at Fort Drum, NY as a BN S-3, for both the job and location! Crazy, I know.

SFC(P) (Join to see) the best duty station for me was Ft McClellan! I worked in STU/Trainee MILPO. Class B was the uniform and the only duty I had to pull was CQ because we had trainees for guard duty. I enjoyed Germany, however it was cold and we were always on ‘alert’ and I didn’t have much time off to travel. Of Course this was during the Cold War and 2nd Armored Division (FWD) was the closest post to the Berlin Wall. I also really enjoyed working the E7 Board at Ft Benjamin Harrison

Engineering Officer, Naval Support Force Antarctica (Operation Deep Freeze). Helped build the first artificial sea-ice wharf, flew in during the winter to build sea-ice runways, lead surface SAR, laid out routes to inland stations, AND had to suffer going to blasting school to do my job. On the side I helped capture the first penguins for Sea World and ran the high end booze racket (not for profit). Not bad for O-1. Pretty much unlimited authority to make good things happen. That and epic pranks that would get you scorched CONUS side.